Lomavren language

Lomavren language

Infobox Language
name = Lomavren
nativename = Lomavren'
familycolor = Indo-European
fam2=Armenian
states = Armenia, Azerbaijan, Russia, Syria [ [http://linguistlist.org/forms/langs/LLDescription.cfm?code=rmi The Lomavren Language - Linguist list] ]
iso3=rmi

Lomavren is a mixed language, spoken by the Lom people, or Posha. It appeared at the contact between the proto-Roma language and the Armenian language. It lacks a grammatical gender having 7 grammatical cases; its grammar is closely related to Armenian, with the vocabulary being almost exclusively Indic.

References

External links

* [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=rmi Ethnology entry for RMI (Lomavren)]


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